A woman originally from Harrogate is competing on this seasons MasterChef.
Abi Kempley, 21, was born and brought up in Harrogate but now lives in Leeds and works in sales for her family’s business.
The BBC One cookery show, which sees UK chefs battle it out to win the MasterChef trophy, is now in its 20th series. It is judged and hosted by culinary duo John Torode and Gregg Wallace.
Abi appeared in this week’s firs episode (Series 20, episode 9) and made her way through to knockout week.
In the episode, Gregg Wallace said:
“In a room full of great cookery we did have two absolutely stand out contestants, and those contestants are going straight through to knockout week.”
He added one of those was Abi, who along with fellow chefs Dinta and Tom was put through to the next round.
At the end of the episode Abi said:
“I definitely want more than knockout week, you can’t just get to knockout week and get knocked out, that would be rubbish.”
In a previous interview with the BBC, she said:
“Food has always been a massive part of my life. My family have always enjoyed eating out, everywhere we went when I was growing up was influenced by where we could eat. I think this has massively impacted my own cooking style – I love to cook what I love to eat. I’ve always loved Japanese and Asian flavours, and this is always what I love to eat when out. In 2020 I started trying to recreate these dishes from home and my cooking has developed from there.”
She revealed her mum pushed her to apply for the show:
“I love cooking and I love food, and wanted a challenge and to see that I really can cook.”
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